25-26 Castle St / Farnham

Pair of late-C18 houses, painted brick, 2 storeys, Grade II listed. Timber doorcases in the Doric style. Farnham, Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK. 

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9 Castle St / Farnham

Grade II* listed C18 house. Two storeys plus attic and cellar, front door with open pediment, also a round-arched secondary door to NW corner. Farnham, Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK. 

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'Untitled III' / UCA

Concrete sculpture of 1998 by Branden Davison, situated in the grounds of the Norman Taylor Student Village (architect Nick Evans c.1995). Then known as the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, now part of the University for the Creative Arts. Farnham, Borough of Waverley, Surrey, UK.

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St Mary Merton / N Porch

Porch said to date from 1390, with original oak tracery. Grade II* listed parish church founded by Gilbert the Norman in 1115, although much altered over the centuries. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Merton Park, London Borough of Merton. 

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Wandle Industrial Museum / Panels

Hand-painted panels based on a William Morris 1884 pattern. Made by Portia Dadley and Dominic Fagan with Siobhan Neale in 2019. Mitcham, London Borough of Merton. 

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Vestry Hall / Doors

Architect: Robert Masters Chart, 1887, in a sort of Victorian Neo-Renaissance style. London Rd, Mitcham, London Borough of Merton.

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470-472 London Rd / CR4

Semi-detached pair of houses (now subdivided), listed Grade II. Late Georgian style although built in 1840 by Thomas Finden, a local builder (source: Lower Mitcham Conservation Area). London stock brick with channelled stucco to ground and 1st floor façade. Mitcham, London Borough of Merton. 

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Upside Down House / III

Upside-down house installation at 42-43 King's Road Arches. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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Upside Down House / II

Upside-down house installation at 42-43 King's Road Arches. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Riddle & Finns / BN1

Champagne and Oysters bar at 139 King's Road Arches. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Spring Equinox / 2021

Today is the northward equinox. London Borough of Merton.

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West Beach / Brighton

West Beach Bar & Kitchen, by the i360. The Victorian Italianate style kiosk is a replica reconstruction (Marks Barfield, 2016) of the West Pier's original toll booth (Eugenius Birch, c.1863). The foreground columns are part of a sculpture (Fiona Atkinson, 2017) using original cast-ironwork from the West Pier. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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The Grand / Brighton

Hotel designed by John Whichcord Jr, 1864, in a Victorian Neo-Classical style finished in cream-painted stucco. Grade II listed. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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Kingswest / Pryzm

Architects: Russell Diplock Associates, 1965, in an ebullient MCM style described as Futurist Kitsch (among other things). The building was known originally as the Top Rank Suite. Sadly, developers are looking towards replacing this and the adjacent Brighton Centre. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Kingswest / 2021

Architects: Russell Diplock Associates, 1965, in an ebullient MCM style described as Futurist Kitsch (among other things). The building was known originally as the Top Rank Suite. Sadly, developers are looking towards replacing this and the adjacent Brighton Centre. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Brighton Metropole / Porch

Ornate porch installed during a 1990s refurbishment of the Brighton Metropole. When opened in 1890 the hotel, designed in a Neo-Renaissance style by Alfred Waterhouse, had a pedimented entrance canopy.  City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Beach Break / Sign

Sign for seafront café under Brighton arches. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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Shelter Hall / Rebuild

Architects: R H Partnership for Brighton & Hove City Council, 2021. Enlarged rebuild of Shelter Hall as part of the regeneration of Brighton seafront. The 1883 kiosk that was above has been listed, restored and re-sited at East Street Bastion. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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Never Normal / Brighton

City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK.

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i360 / 2021

Architects: Marks & Barfield, 2016. Observation tower 162m high, currently closed due to the pandemic. City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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West Pier / 2021

Remains of the Victorian pleasure pier designed by Eugenius Birch, 1866. Just discernable on the horizon are the turbines of the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. Brighton & Hove City, Sussex, UK.

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Sussex Heights / 2021

Residential high-rise designed by Seiferts, 1968. 26 floors, tallest residential building on the south coast of England rising 334 feet (102m). St Margaret's Place, City of Brighton & Hove, Sussex, UK. 

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346-348 London Rd / CR4

Pair of Grade II listed cottages, now subdivided, described in the listing as mid to late C18, probably with earlier origins. The local authority appraisal says: 

'Concealed behind the ”modernised” rendered Georgian facade ... is a much older building. The heavy timber framing of the interior, and the gabled rear elevation show this to be in fact, a Tudor building'.

Mitcham, London Borough of Merton.

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MBC / Pavilion

Mitcham Bowling Club was established in 1930 and relocated to The Canons in 1965 [source: CMP Report 954/SG/V2], when presumably this pavilion was built. Mitcham, London Borough of Merton. 

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White Hart Mitcham / II

Rebuilt in 1749-50, Grade II listed. Remaining closed since photographed in 2014 (see below). London Road, opposite Cricket Green, London Borough of Merton.

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White Hart / Mitcham

Spring / Harbinger

 

Behind every shadow,

Ray of light

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Vestry Hall / Mitcham

 Architect: Robert Masters Chart, 1887, in a sort of Victorian Neo-Renaissance style using red brick, Mansfield stone dressings and slate tiling. Locally listed. Adjacent, a 2018 apartment block sympathetically designed by Stephen Bradbury Architects. London Rd, Mitcham, London Borough of Merton.

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Mitcham Obelisk / II

Restoration work as part of the the Canons House & Grounds regeneration project. Obelisk inscribed 25 September 1822. Grade II listed 1954. London Borough of Merton. 

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See also...

Chinese Dried Flowers / III

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